[Pause. Laughter.] Oh, yeah. The new album... I was going to ask what
you were talking about... Usually titles are the toughest thing for me.
"What do you name this album?" Usually I just cheese out and name it after
a song. I was sitting one night trying to figure out what to name this
thing, going through a long list of names, and nothing was quite striking
me. And I was thinking aobut the word "live" and it came--"liver." How do
you pronounce it? I don't care. Either way, it works. That's the beauty of
it. And I must say it's the most sure I've ever been of a title, for
better, for worse.

When asked in years past about live albums, you've stated that
you're not real fond of them.

Part of the reason why I don't like live albums is that most of them
aren't really live albums. You do a concert, you get some audience on tape,
maybe you keep the drums, but most everything else is replaced so that by
the time you're done, what you've got is a studio album with a live
soundtrack.

Technology came so that we could have 24-track recording in tour with us
every night. Originally I was going to take different selections from
different nights, but then I said, "No, that's cheating. I'm just going to
take things from one night."

So without a net, without overdubs...

...and the problem is that it's not an even playing field. People are
going to listen to this and say, "My gosh. What are you doing here? You've
got some pitch problems, don't you?" I don't like to think of it as singing
flat; I like to think of it as non-pitch specific...

For better or worse, it's as live as it gets. [...] I don't know if
most people know that there's really no such thing as a live record these
days, because on just about everything that you hear, even an 'MTV
Unplugged,' everybody goes back to the studio and fixes things. You do a
concert, you get some audience on tape, maybe you keep the drums, but most
everything else is fixed or replaced, so the whole sense of an actual live
record gets taken away. Of course, the downside of the way we did it is
that the guitar player might break a string, or the singer occasionally
sings out of tune, though, for myself, I like to think of it as
non-pitch-specific.

[No overdubs.] We recorded most of the shows on the tour, but picking
the best performances from different nights seemed like cheating, too, so
we just went with one night's concert. I had to be doctrinaire with it,
otherwise I knew I'd start second-guessing everything.